Virtualization and the Cloud: Encryption Enables a Fast and Secure Migration

The business benefits and economies of migrating to virtualized and cloud environments are very clear, providing significant cost reduction and system efficiencies, moving to a “pay as you go model”. However, when you move to a dense virtual infrastructure or cloud, you often lose control of the underlying infrastructure, therefore ownership and control of data in that infrastructure. In addition, workloads are mobile yet security is usually tied to underlying infrastructure, removing any assurances that security policies can be enforced as workloads move.

In the journey to virtualization and the cloud, many organizations are still contending with large pools of physical infrastructure. They want to gain the efficiency and lower cost associated with server consolidation and virtualization, but security and audit teams advise them this puts the company’s sensitive data at risk. Automating IT in a private cloud keeps developers and other users in-house and under an organization’s control, but rapid deployment of workload requires agile security.

Join your fellow professionals to first understand the challenges and roadblocks of migrating to the cloud and virtualized environments, and where the data security gaps exist. Then understand how by attaching security to the data itself and managing the encryption keys, you are able to maintain control of your data, prove compliance, and facilitate governance – even in a dense virtual or cloud environment. Virtualization, Hybrid or Public cloud offerings can now be used for broader workloads (including ones containing business critical, sensitive data ie. production servers in addition to test and development), while still delivering the security and compliance requirements needed.

Please join us, on August 24th, at 10:30 AM PT, for a Webinar on how to confidently secure Docker on AWS.

Docker adoption has surged, up 40% over the past year, taking the lead for DevOps tools on AWS. With this transformation, enterprises are looking for ways to confidently introduce Docker into their Cloud environment. Join us as Cavirin experts guide you through:

> Securing EC2 Container Services, as well as Docker images, brought in from different registries
> Integrating CloudTrail and CloudFormation
> Today's best Docker security practices on AWS
> The latest on Kubernetes

Attend the AWS Docker Webinar and a chance to win Snapchat Spectacles.

The ICT sector is moving us inexorably towards a software-enabled digital world, but many still fail to understand the power of this trend, how it is going to impact/benefit the ICT Industries and infrastructures delivering them.

Among topics discussed will be:
- Present and future impact of Software Defined technologies on IT (challenges and opportunities)
- How Software-Defined is enabling the digital transformation
- Best practices and recommendation on adopting software-defined technologies with the future in mind.

This Webinar is aimed at IT professionals and CIOs/CDOs/CTOs seeking to understand more about how software-defined impacts the present and future of enterprises.

Containers can make it easier for developers to know that their software will run, no matter where it is deployed. This webcast, presented by the SNIA Cloud Storage Initiative and the SNIA Solid State Storage Initiative, will discuss how persistent memory is a revolutionary technology, which will boost the performance of next-generation packaging of applications and libraries into containers.

You’ll learn:
•What SNIA is doing to advance persistent memory
•What the ecosystem enablement efforts are around persistent memory solutions
•How NVDIMMs are paving the way for plug-n-play adoption into containers environments

Join SNIA experts, Arthur Sainio, SNIA NVDIMM SIG Co-chair, Chad Thibodeau, SNIA Cloud Storage member and Alex McDonald Co-chair of SNIA Solid State Storage and SNIA Cloud Storage Initiatives to find out what customers, storage developers, and the industry want to see to fully unlock the potential of persistent memory in a container environment.

Standards organizations like SNIA are in the vanguard of describing cloud concepts and usage, and (as you might expect) are leading on how and where security fits in this new world of dispersed and publicly stored and managed data. In this webcast, SNIA experts Eric Hibbard and Mark Carlson will take us through a discussion of existing cloud and emerging technologies (such as the Internet of Things (IoT), Analytics & Big Data, and so on) – and explain how we’re describing and solving the significant security concerns these technologies are creating. They will discuss emerging ISO/IEC standards, SLA frameworks and security and privacy certifications. This webcast will be of interest to managers and acquirers of cloud storage (whether internal or external), and developers of private and public cloud solutions who want to know more about security and privacy in the cloud.

Radiant is a robust tool for business analytics and running sophisticated models without any need for code development. It leverages the functions and tools in R and at the same time provides a user-friendly interface. With Radiant, you can manipulate and visualize your data, run different models from simple OLS to decision trees (CART) and neural networks, and evaluate your results.

The application is based on the Shiny package and can be run locally or on a server. Radiant was developed by Vicent Nijs. In this webinar, we review the tools available in Radiant and explain how easily you can use this tool without any setup or installation on your system.

Radiant key features:

• Explore: Quickly and easily summarize, visualize, and analyze your data
• Run different models: OLS, GLM, Neural Networks, Naïve Bayes and CART.
• Cross-platform: It runs in a browser on Windows, Mac, and Linux
• Reproducible: Recreate results and share work with others as a state-file or an Rmarkdown report
• Programming: Integrate Radiant's analysis functions with your own R-code
• Context: Data and examples focus on business applications

After this webinar you will learn:

• Data manipulation and running different models
• How to run advanced analytics in a browser on any device even in your tablet or iPad.

Presenter bio:

Ali has a Ph.D. in Finance from the University of Neuchatel in Switzerland and a BS in Electrical Engineering. He has extensive experience in financial modeling, quantitative modeling, and financial risk management in several US banks.

Logistic regressions are the basic of machine learning. In this webinar, we discuss binomial and multinomial logistic regressions, how we implement them in R and test their performance. We will also review few examples of their usage in industry. In addition, you will learn how to use R-Brain advanced IDE when implementing the model.

Ali has a Ph.D. in Finance from the University of Neuchatel in Switzerland and a BS in Electrical Engineering. He has extensive experience in financial modeling, quantitative modeling, and financial risk management in several US banks.

Octane I/O provides an enterprise grade, near real time integration of HPE ALM or HPE Octane with four popular Agile development tools (Atlassian JIRA, Microsoft TFS, CA Agile Central/Rally and VersionOne). This webinar will provide:

•High level introduction to the new synchronization offering
•Sampling of integration use cases between HPE tools and 3rd party Agile tools
•Technical demo of HPE ALM Octane I/O
•Details for accessing your licenses
•Where to get more information

You'll have everything you need to quickly get HPE ALM or Octane connected to your Agile tools.

Cohesity is one of the rising stars in the world of data management. They have flipped the data protection market on its ear. In this CEO Series webcast, Arun Taneja, Founder and Consulting Analyst of Taneja Group will interview Mohit Aron, CEO of Cohesity, to understand the concept of Hyperconverged Secondary Storage and why it matters to the industry. We will explore the advantages it provides for your data protection, test/dev, and data analytics workloads and how Cohesity is different from other solutions on the market. It is time to say goodbye to the old, staid methods of protecting data. The traditional methods simply don’t make sense in the new world of Big Data, Multi and Hybrid cloud and web-scale applications. Join the webcast for a whirlwind tour of new ideas and methods in this space.

As businesses become increasingly dependent on SAP HANA for real-time decisions, the demands of the infrastructure continue to grow. A more efficient and modern infrastructure is required to meet the demands of these global always on real-time environments. Storage plays a crucial role in maintaining high service levels and guarding against costly downtime. The right storage for SAP HANA is all flash.
Join us as Jeff Kato, Senior Analyst and Consultant from Taneja Group describes why all flash is the best choice for HANA. Jeff will also provide a comparison of the leading all flash solutions in the market and illustrate where 3PAR All Flash leads the competition in critical storage efficiency metrics. Stephen Carpenter, Master Technologist from HPE’s Storage Business Unit, will share some key insights that distinguishes 3PAR StoreServ architecturally for HANA workloads. Additionally, Hasmig Samurkashian, Product Manager from the HPE Storage team will share actual customer deployment examples.

The Internet of Things (IoT) is one of the most exciting and dynamic areas of IT at the present time. IoT involves the linking of physical entities (“things”) with IT systems that derive information about or from those things which can be used to drive a wide variety of applications and services. IoT covers a very wide spectrum of applications, spanning enterprises, governments and consumers and represents the integration of systems from traditionally different communities: Information Technology and Operational Technology. As a result, it is important for IoT systems to have architectures, systems principles, and operations that can accommodate the interesting scale, safety, reliability, and privacy requirements. Attend this webinar to hear best practices for supporting the Internet of Things (IoT) using cloud computing.

Security and compliance standards for IOT are top of mind as viruses such as Marai plague unsuspecting devices. Join Jeanne Morain and special guests Christ Armstrong Teknow Consulting as they provide insights and solutions to secure IOT devices on your cloud infrastructure.

This exciting panel explores the kinds of storage that IoT solutions demand. We talk about what’s different about data storage for IoT compared to existing enterprise applications, what capabilities are required to support massive, distributed IoT networks, and how and why existing storage solutions may or may not be the best IoT application storage. Plan on getting into unique IoT data protection concerns, real-time data pipelines, machine learning, data accessibility, distributed processing, and of course, what’s actually practical for the IoT already emerging in today’s data center.

Docker allows teams to increase the speed and scale that they can deliver software. As a result, adoption rates for docker are accelerating as more organizations are looking for ways to innovate faster.

As you move down the path to containers, it is important to note that an out-of-the box installation of just about any Linux distribution is capable of running the Docker daemon and Docker containers, but it will leave your host exposed to many security and performance concerns if not configured properly.

Join us for this webinar to learn how to:
- Configure host settings to harden and protect it from unauthorized access
- Install and configure a Docker Engine with minimal attack surface
- Ensure that the host has the necessary integration with existing enterprise systems like SIEM and enterprise directories

Join us to learn about JupyterLab, the new open source computational environment for Jupyter. Increase the performance of your data science projects by working in an integrated environment for your notebooks, editor, terminal and console. We will also discuss R-Brain cloud platform and its new R Python Cloud IDE which is built on JupyterLab.

Every IT organisation is under pressure to deliver services as efficiently as possible, utilising infrastructure and services that may have a significant impact on the financial position and results of the organisation

Historically, cloud technology has made reference to the potential benefits of transferring costs from the balance sheet (capex) to the income statement (opex). However, an unintended consequence has been that few, if any, cloud related costs could be capitalised. This may not be the desired outcome for all organisations and the capitalisation of certain types of cloud technology maybe preferred, or even required by accounting standards. This session explores this area and what key considerations can be given to the capitalisation of cloud.

Interview in partnership with BrightTALK, The Stack and Cloud Industry Forum
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In this interview John Abel, the Head of Technology and Cloud for UK, Ireland and Israel at Oracle, is discussing the latest innovations in the cloud and how these impact the modern business environment.

Among topics discussed:

- Cloud in 2020
- Extreme innovations in the cloud
- Challenges with cloud adoption today
- Legacy organisations and digital transformation in the cloud
- "What does lobsters have to do with innovation"
- Top 3 pieces of advice for aspiring technology leaders

About the Speaker:
John Abel has worked with Oracle for over 20 years and during this time he has worked in Support, Applications, Technology and Consulting.

More recently John has been in Oracle Systems for four years. John's main focus now is Engineered Systems and Oracle Database Cloud (Database as a Service) across Europe, Middle East and Africa and he often uses his prior experience to explain all aspects of technology to customers. In his presentations, John relates to actual customer experience and provides real world answers to real world problems. John is also a successful Oracle Press Author and using his experience of over 300+ customer engagements has produced publications explaining the Oracle Technology and Applications.

Interview in partnership with BrightTALK, The Stack and Cloud Industry Forum
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In this interview, Sandra Bell, Head of BC & ISDG Consulting (Europe), Sungard, will share with us how tech innovations impact the moderb BCDR strategies.

Topics up for discussion:

- Innovations in the cloud and BCDR
- Critical things to know when creating a BCDR strategy
- Latest trends in disaster recovery
- Business continuity and digital transformation
- Technology recovery solutions and local resilience strategies
- And others

About the Speaker:
Sandra is a seasoned risk and business continuity professional with over 25 years’ experience of the design and management of strategic, business friendly risk, continuity and security solutions in public and private sectors. Experience ranges from: the management of risk and the protection of data within the UK’s main business process outsourcer to the financial and government sectors; to the protection of the largest part of the UK’s critical national infrastructure.

Today's IT is struggling with trying to keep the lights on for sometimes 100s or 1000s of applications built on legacy architectures while also attempting to turn on a dime in an era when business expects "just in time" IT. What strategies can you employ to help bridge the gap from yesterday to today and tomorrow? Where do you need to look for change (technologies, service providers, organizational) and what is possible through that change? Finally, what assumptions about what's possible for you to have to break through with yourself, your management and your customers?

Join Syamla Bandla, VP of Global Cloud Operations and DevOps at Qualys and recipient of the Top Women in Cloud Award 2016, for a technical deep-dive into cloud applications and operations in the 21st century.

About the presenter:

Syamla has over 18 years building, scaling and transforming high-performance operations and engineering teams in the US, Europe and Asia. She has taken multiple organizations through various phases of organization building and transformation, transformed technology organizations from the ground up and taken multiple Cloud and SaaS products to market.

At RMS, Syamla was responsible for hybrid cloud engineering and operations, platform services, devops, and database operations & engineering, operational intelligence, monitoring and service Level management functions for all client facing cloud based products and services.

Prior to RMS, she was Head of SaaS Production Engineering and Operations team at Dell. Responsible for end to end service delivery of SaaS Products to production and managed Global Production Engineering and Operations teams across Europe, Asia and North America.

Syamla came to Dell as part of the start-up acquisition of “Everdream Corp” which built a Systems Management SaaS product. After the acquisition her responsibilities grew to integrating and building Global Production Engineering and Operations teams for four additional SaaS products.

Syamla Joined Dell from Fidelity Investments in Boston where she worked as Lead Network Engineer. In that role, she supported the critical infrastructure and network for mission critical trading floor applications and services.

The application lifecycle is fundamentally changing at a greater rate and amplitude. Accordingly, cloud services are integral to the application architecture and implementation. A key challenge to overcome is how to monitor with discipline these applications that are driving disruptive innovation in their respective industries.

In this session, we will discuss how to monitor cloud applications with discipline in order to ensure seamless application integration and delivery.
- What defines successful cloud applications?
- How do I apply a foundational set of skills like monitoring as a discipline to guarantee successful cloud outcomes?

Kong Yang is a Head Geek at SolarWinds with over 20 years of IT experience specializing in virtualization and cloud management. He is a US Patent holder, VMware vExpert™, Cisco® Champion, and active contributing thought leader within the virtualization community.

Cloud computing is a general concept that incorporates software-as-a-service (SaaS), platform-as-a-service (PaaS), infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) and other recent well-known technology trends in which the common theme is reliance on the Internet for satisfying the computing needs of the users.

This channel features presentations by thought leaders who cover the key topic areas in this increasingly important field.